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Social Production and Artificial Intelligence

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Towards an International Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the latest General-Purpose Technology, inducing disruption to processes of economic and social production. This collection focuses attention on AI induced disruption to social production processes including contributions that note such in the Global South and the BRICs—Brazil, Russia, India, and China. Scrutiny of social production is long a part of political economy studies, being traced to the tradition of economic interpretation of history and society. Contemporary international political economy is partly built on the economic interpretation of history tradition affording sufficient analytical depth and breadth for this collection. A working definition of AI is provided before an overview of contributions to this collection.

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Kiggins, R.D. (2021). Social Production and Artificial Intelligence. In: Keskin, T., Kiggins, R.D. (eds) Towards an International Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence. International Political Economy Series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-74420-5_1

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